Robyn Hitchcock – Mad Shelleys Letterbox (Guitar)

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[Verse]
E
Time

                   A
Is written on your face

                                    E
And the cold white arms of memory embrace you

E
Love

                  A
Is all we lay to waste

          B               F#            B
Now it’s only lips of loneliness that taste you
[Chorus]
    B
Oh god you were beautiful

    A
Oh god you were beautiful

    B
Oh god

          F#     G# A     F# E       F# G# C#  B
Mad Shelley’s letterbox is full of birthday cards
[Verse]
E                    A
Me I never left the room

                                          E
The lightbulb that shone down on me was gloomy

E                        A
I could read you by the moon

     B                 F#               B
The way you looked at me I thought you knew me
[Chorus]
    B
Oh god you were beautiful

    A
Oh god you were beautiful

   B
Oh god

          F#     G# A     F# E       F# G# C#  B
Mad Shelley’s letterbox is full of birthday cards

          F#     G# A     F# E       F# G# C#  B
Mad Shelley’s letterbox is full of birthday cards
(Special delivery from mad Shelley) [Verse]
  E
What

                A
Could anybody say

                                         E
Except in hindsight this was bound to happen

  E                          A
When two souls collide this way

        B               F#              B
There’s no compartment they can find a map in
[Bridge]
A                       E                      D                 A
I don’t know what your mind is thinking your mind’s not in your heart
[Chorus]
    B
Oh god you were beautiful

    A
Oh god you were beautiful

    B
Oh god

          F#     G# A     F# E       F# G# C#  B
Mad Shelley’s letterbox is full of birthday cards

          F#     G# A     F# E       F# G# C#  B
Mad Shelley’s letterbox is full of birthday cards

          F#     G# A     F# E       F# G# C#  B
Mad Shelley’s letterbox is full of birthday cards
[Outro]
 B
Ahhhh

 B
Ahhhh

 B
Ahhhh
[Hook]
E|-----0-----0-----0-----0-----0-----0-----0-----0-----0-----0-----0-----0--0--|
B|--5-----4-----2-----0-----2-----0-----------------2-----0-----------------0--|
G|--------------------------------------2-----1-----------------2-----1-----4--|
D|--------------------------------------------------------------------------4--|
A|--------------------------------------------------------------------------2--|
E|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|